Rajeev Saumitra among 23 Inspirational People of the Country

• Features in “Inspiring Stories of Successful Personalities in India” by Aneesh Bhanot
• World’s famous mountaineer and renowned geography teacher
• Founder and director of Paramount Coaching Centre

New Delhi, December 18, 2015: Mr. Rajeev Saumitra, a world famous mountaineer and a renowned Geography teacher, also the founder of famous Paramount Coaching Centre, has got the distinction of being featured in the just launched book, Inspiring Stories of Successful Personalities in India.

The book has been written by Aneesh Bhanot, a Chandigarh based author, who is also a renowned media consultant. Rajeev Saumitra has been featured along with 23 inspiring personalities from across the country. The coaching centre, a dream project of Rajeev Saumitra, which had made a humble beginning in 2005 with only 5 to 7 students today after 10 years, has 27,000 students getting coaching in its branches across the country.

For Rajeev Saumitra sky is the limit and besides having scaled Mount Everest has also touched new heights by helping out students from smaller towns by coaching them for getting government jobs. On May 22, 2013, Mr. Rajeev Saumitra scaled Mount Everest and proudly flew the Indian flag as well as the flag of Paramount Coaching Centre on the peak.

It is a dream for most of the youth of the country to serve the nation by joining the Civil Services and Mr. Saumitra was no exception. In 1997, he came to Delhi to join some Coaching Centre and prepare for the competitive exams, but all he met was with rejection and ridicule.

Rajeev Saumitra said, “Basically, what the senior officials of a number of Coaching Centres told me was that convent education was necessary for being successful in these exams and since I had come from a Hindi medium school, I could not join their Coaching Centres.”

When a person is faced with hurdles, he can either buckle under the pressure or stand up, tall and forthright, and write his own future. Mr. Rajeev Saumitra saw an opportunity here through which he could help thousands of students who come to Delhi with similar aspirations as he had, and facilitate their path to serve the country.

“I felt that something different needed to be done – there was a need for an Institute that would understand the needs of students who had studied in the Hindi medium and came from villages and small towns of the Hindi belt – UP, Bihar etc.- and guide them to success in getting government jobs,” he stated. That is how, in 2005, Mr. Rajeev Saumitra started Paramount Coaching Centre in Delhi.

“We looked at the course content and created an innovative style of teaching so that students from Hindi medium schools would be comfortable with it and get rid of the ‘inferiority complex’ that the English based Coaching Centres would try to thrust on them. Initially, there were only 5-7 students, but today we have over 27,000 students. We now have 21 branches across India and Paramount Coaching Centre has become the most respected and biggest Coaching Centre for getting government jobs in India. Our success rate is the envy of most of the other Coaching Centres,” he says with pride.